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Far out : countercultural seekers and the tourist encounter in Nepal /
'Far Out' examines how generations of counterculturally inclined Westerners have imagined Nepal as a land untainted by modernity and its capital, Kathmandu, a veritable synonym of Oriental Mystique.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The golden age. Building the road to Kathmandu: steps in the West's journey to the East
- Making Nepal a destination: the cultural politics of early tourism
- Mountains, monsters, and monks: Nepal in the 1950s Western popular imagination
- The key to an oriental world: Boris Lissanevitch, Kathmandu's Royal Hotel, and
- The "golden age" of tourism in Nepal
- Jung Bahadur Coapsingha: John Coapman, hunting, and the origins of adventure tourism in Nepal
- Hippie Nepal. The great rucksack revolution: Western youth on the road to Kathmandu
- "Kathmandu or bust": countercultural longing and the rise of Freak Street
- "Something big and glorious and magnificently insane": hippie Kathmandu
- Hippie ko pala (the age of hippies)
- Nepal's discovery of tourism and the end of the hippie era
- Adventure tourism. Adventure Nepal: trekking, thamel, and the new tourism
- Imbibing Eastern wisdom: Nepal as dharma destination.